Re: [lojban-beginners] compound cmavo (and pauses) in BY selma'o

[".alyn.post." <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:48:50PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:38 PM, .alyn.post.
> <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:11:39PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:30 PM, .alyn.post.
> >> <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
> >> > There are several compound cmavo in the BY selma'o, {.abu}, {.ebu},
> >> > &c.  Is this the only selma'o which has words with pauses in them?
> >>
> >> ".a bu", "denpa bu", "pavyseljirna bu", "bi bu bu bu" etc. are *not*
> >> members of BY (and they are not all compound cmavo). They are
> >> constructs that behave almost as if they were in BY, but they are not
> >> in BY.
> >>
> >> Similarly "broda zei brode", "da zei de", ".a zei .e zei .i zei .o zei
> >> .u", etc are not members of BRIVLA, although they behave almost as if
> >> they were.
> >>
> >> Similarly "zo ,a", "zo .djan.", "zo zo" are not members of KOhA,
> >> although they behave almost as if they were. (And the same can be said
> >> of the ZOI and LOhU constructs.)
> >
> > Chapter 17 of the CLL seems to imply otherwise.  I gather this is
> > errata for the CLL?
> 
> CLL says: "All such words suffixed by “bu” are treated grammatically
> as if they were cmavo belonging to selma'o BY" which is basically
> correct (the only exceptions being around other magic words). I
> wouldn't say that's an erratum, perhaps "almost as if they were" would
> be more exact.
> 

Wonderful, thank you xorxes.

-Alan
-- 
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